ent.
To secure the full benefit of these Indulgences it will be only
necessary, further, to pay for them; and that this may the more
conveniently be done they will be supplied on the most liberal scale of
charges.
In addition to the Skittle Ground, there will be provided a Bowling
Green, surrounded with a Ghost's Walk, adorned with Winking Statues,
Bleeding Pictures, and other objects of like nature calculated to edify
the faithful in such matters. In conclusion, Respectable and
Intelligent, as touching liquor, we profess ourselves ever ready to
supply you
IN YOUR OWN JUGS, BRUMMAGEM BROMPTON.
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[Illustration: Two of the most Extraordinary Occurrences of the Day--The
Appearances at Salette and Chelsea.]
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NEUTRALITY IN PLUSH.
The wonders of steam at Manchester and other great manufacturing towns
are quite eclipsed by the triumph at which mechanical science has
arrived in an obscure locality. Witness this advertisement, extracted
from the _Cambridge Chronicle_ of the 10th instant:
WANTED in a Clergyman's family in the country, a FOOTMAN, _which_
must also have a knowledge of Gardening. For particulars address
X.Y., Post Office, Caxton.
The Footman _which_ is wanted in a Clergyman's family, is, of course, a
Machine; as the neuter pronoun, by the tenet of MURRAY, held of course
by every clergyman, is to be applied to animals and inanimate things;
and no known animal is capable of a Footman's place. The Footman thus
wanted might have been supposed to be a trivet, but for the requisition
that it shall have a knowledge of gardening. This proves that it must be
an Engine--and in part a Garden Engine--endowed with intellectual
faculties. That it is advertised for is sufficient evidence that it
exists.
Necessity is the mother of invention; and the dearth of labour, combined
with the insolence, unthrift, and dishonesty of servants, has compelled
some clever mechanist to devise the sort of Footman which is wanted by
the clergyman; and has been long in general request.
How such a domestic could have been constructed; how it was possible to
make a lackey that should not only clean boots and wait at table, but
dig, and prune, and plant, and exercise intelligence, moreover, in these
horticultural operations, it is difficult to conceive. Imagination
staggers at the idea of a Steam Flunkey. The MR. SMEE, who resolves
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